Shell Programming and Scripting

Code:

vim "-cnorm G2k ci'smb_dynamic bsd z resolv rt" "-cnorm Gk ci'dl ls" +wq reptest

You seem to want to automatically update some sort of source-code. There is a specialised utility for that, it is called patch. In general it is fed a diff-output file and applies this diff to a sourcce file. This is the common way to update the source in a source-rpm to a higher version. The update will contain all the diffs which, when applied to an older version, give you the newer version. The man page of patch is rather exhaustive, so i suggest to read it carefully. If there are still questions please do not hesitate to raise them.

If you just want to replace fixed lines with a fixed text you could create a "changes-file" that might look like this:

Code:

<line-nr>|replacement-text

i.e.

Code:

25|replacement1
27|replacement2

and feed it the following script, which just an infinitely dumb version of patch:

Code:

#! /bin/ksh

typeset    fIn="/some/input/file"
typeset    fOut="/some/output/file"
typeset    fChanges="/file/with/the/changes/as/mentioned"
typeset -i iLine=0
typeset    chLine=""
typeset    fTmp="/tmp/myscript.$$"


cp "$fIn" "$fTmp"
while IFS="|" read iLine chLine ; do
     if sed "$iLine"' s/.*/'"$chLine"'/' "$fTmp" > "$fOut" ; then
          cp  "$fOut" "$fTmp"
     else
          exit 1
     fi
done < "$fChanges"

exit 0

Notice that in this case the replacement text must not contain regexes, i.e. backreferences like \1

I hope this helps.

bakunin